Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Notion That Information Is Free Is A Dangerous One

There’s always been fake news but what’s different this time is that you can tailor the story to particular individuals, because you know the prejudice of this particular individual. The more people believe in free will, that their feelings represent some mystical spiritual capacity, the easier it is to manipulate them, because they won’t think that their feelings are being produced and manipulated by some external system.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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